Hokkaido Highway Blues : Hitchhiking Japan

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Author: Ferguson, Will JapanPublished on 5 June 2003 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 352 pages197 x 130 x 23 | 240g Abridged editionIt had never been done befo re. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both.The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books ever written about Japan. And, as Ferguson learns, it illustrates that to travel is better than to arrive. Show more